Rick Gates (political consultant)
| Rick Gates | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Richard W. Gates III April 27, 1972 |
| Education |
College of William and Mary (BA) George Washington University (MPP) |
| Known for | 2017 Special Counsel investigation |
| Political party | Republican |
Richard W. Gates III (born April 27, 1972) is an American political consultant and lobbyist. He is a longtime business associate of Paul Manafort and served as deputy to Manafort when the latter was campaign manager of the Donald Trump presidential campaign in 2016. Gates and Manafort were both indicted in October 2017 on charges related to their consulting work with political figures in Ukraine.
Gates is the son of Richard W. Gates, Jr., a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who is the founder and chief executive officer of the Gates Group International, a management and information technology firm based in Prince George County, Virginia. An Army brat, Gates lived on multiple military installations in the U.S. and overseas as a boy. His family finally settled in Prince George County near Fort Lee where his father was stationed in the late 1980s. He graduated from Prince George High School in 1990 and is a 1994 graduate of the College of William & Mary with a degree in government. Later he earned a master's degree in public policy from George Washington University.
Early in his career, Gates was an intern at the Washington, D.C. consulting firm Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly. There he worked with Republican lobbyist Rick Davis, eventually going to work for him and Manafort in 2006 at their new consulting firm Davis Manafort, with an office in Kiev, Ukraine. Among the clients Gates worked with were Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, taking over this work when Davis left the firm in 2008 to work on the presidential campaign of John McCain. Together, they were instrumental in brokering a meeting between McCain and Deripaska in 2006.
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